Sara de Blas Hernández is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Linguistics with a Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition. Her research explores the intersection of food studies, material culture, and pedagogy, focusing on how food and food-related activities can enhance learning in language and literature classrooms. She is also interested in early modern multi-authored recipe books written by women and the communities of practice they represent. Sara’s recent publication, Building Community Through Recipe Sharing, examines the manuscript Libro de apuntaciones de guisos y dulces, a mid-18th-century recipe collection attributed to María Rosa Calvillo de Teruel and her collaborators. Sara also experiments with reconstructing historical recipes, including "Vizcochos de chocolate" from Juan de la Mata’s Arte de Repostería (1747), which she recently recreated with students in a Spanish early modern literature course.